25th Tengen Title 1999

Title match

This years the Tengen title is a rematch of last year: Kobayashi Koichi versus Kudo Norio, a great achievement of Kudo to reach the final again. Last year the match went to five games with Kobayashi taking the title with 3-2. The schedule for the games in this year's title match is as follows:

1999-11-04 Game 1 (Hokkaido)
1999-11-10 Game 2 (Nagano)
1999-11-18 Game 3 (Fukuoka)
1999-12-02 Game 4 (Kobe) (not played)
1999-12-09 Game 5 (Tokushima) (not played)

	1	2	3	T
Kobayashi Koichi				3
Kudo Norio	B+R	W+5.5	B+R	0

Preliminary Tournament

Ushikubo Yoshitaka	Obuchi Morito	Morino Setsuo	Yamada Kimio	Kudo Norio	Kudo Norio	Kudo Norio
Obuchi Morito
Morino Setsuo
Nakaonoda Satomi		Yamada Kimio
Yamada Kimio
Ishida Yoshio		Ishida Yoshio	Kudo Norio
Tono Hiroaki
Kim Sujun		Kudo Norio
Kudo Norio
Ueki Yoshio		Takemiya Masaki	Hane Yasumasa	Ryu Shikun
Takemiya Masaki
Hane Yasumasa		Hane Yasumasa
Kobayashi Satoru
Cho Sonjin		Cho Sonjin	Ryu Shikun
Hikosaka Naoto
Ryu Shikun		Ryu Shikun
Imamura Yoshiaki
Koyama Shizuo		Koyama Shizuo	Nakano Hironari	Yamashita Keigo	Yamashita Keigo
Sonoda Yuichi
Nakano Hironari		Nakano Hironari
Sakata Eio
Kamimura Haruo		Kamimura Haruo	Yamashita Keigo
Kono Takashi
Yamashita Keigo		Yamashita Keigo
Honda Kunihisa
Cho Chikun		Cho Chikun	Takao Shinji	Otake Hideo
Morita Michihiro
Takao Shinji		Takao Shinji
Nakamura Nobuya
Kiyonari Tetsuya		Otake Hideo	Otake Hideo
Otake Hideo
Kato Masao		Akiyama Jiro
Moriyama Naoki	Akiyama Jiro
Akiyama Jiro

Preliminary tournament

Player black	Player white	Date	RE	#M
Yamashita Keigo	Kudo Norio	1999-09-30	W+R	152
Yamashita Keigo	Otake Hideo	1999-08-12	B+2.5	255
Nakano Hironari	Yamashita Keigo	1999-06-10	W+0.5	279
Kamimura Haruo	Yamashita Keigo	1999-04-29	W+R	242
Takao Shinji	Cho Chikun	1999-04-08	B+R	153
Honda Kunihisa	Yamashita Keigo	1999-02-18	W+R	196
Cho Chikun	Morita Michihiro	1999-02-11	B+R	139

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